Simon Groth
@simongroth.com
Curious writer. Aprendiendo español. ‘Ephemeral City’ is available now. Stories and ephemera published in a box that can be read in any order you like. Follow along with my new book in progress. simongroth.com/newsletter
Had some black sapote again. It’s been a while. It’s ok. Not great. But ok.
What a pathetic mealy mouthed response. They built the tools to curate a feed and block bad faith actors. If the result means a user base that skews politically, that says more about the politics than the platform.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Close to finishing a major section of this draft and resisting the urge to push through. I write better when I’m not in a “fuck it that’ll do” mood.
Anyone else with a web site notice how out of control the bot traffic has become? A single unlinked page on my site got pinged 67 times in a four hour period today supposedly from 34 separate countries.
Decoy Font protects messages from being read by AI share.google/1Q1orUYTz8aC...
Decoy Font protects messages from being read by AI
One message for humans and another for artificial intelligence is contained in the letters of Decoy Font, made by the company Mixfont for those who want to avoid having their data scraped.
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Looking through the archives and I came across this memory shared from someone who attended Memory Makes Us in 2014. What an extraordinary story. Thank you whoever you are.
I didn’t have any brandy so I threw some Bundaberg Rum into the coq au vin sauce. Sacre Bleu!
I have discovered a planet. A watery sea washes its big-hearted beaches. What a good world.
The email that says ‘A new order has arrived’ never fails to make my day.
How they did emergency alerts in Australia before mobile phones
Took some new glamour shots of the book for a funding application.
I often think about this when someone says, like, "this movie is unnecessary". All art is unnecessary – that's what makes it art.
Its always a massive tell when boosters of harmful technologies invoke the convenient hypothetical person with a disability as cover.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago“The vast majority of the talent and agents at our events felt that these were a violation of their privacy and were damaging and spoiling the interactions at the tables. Several expressed concerns that they might not continue to attend in-person events if they were being recorded in secret.”
In the park over the back fence: shirtless guy in the lotus position greeting the morning sun. My neighbourhood remains gloriously weird.
Portrait of another artist as a young rocker. One of the greatest images ever , courtesy of his Hamburg friend, Jürgen. Johnny's version of Just Because is on the MBRS. The one where he can't remember how old it is. buff.ly/YsWdomI
Everyone who uses "smart glasses" to be legally required to strap one of these to their head and light it up when the camera is on
It occurred to me just now that leaving a long term job, handing it all over to someone else and walking away, is not dissimilar to making arrangements for your own death. Yeah, I'm a fun hang on a Friday night.
Guys, I struggle with design typefaces used for regular-arse copy. It's very nice—pat on the head—but please stop distracting me, I'm trying to read.
This is laughable --- "reporting says", well yes, these reporters did a bang-up job anthropomorphizing the system they are talking about, and obfuscating the responsibility that OpenAI holds here. bsky.app/profile/mims... Some examples:
Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 2w agoI've seen some folks try to frame OpenAI's unreleased model hacking a company that tests its abilities as a cynical marketing ploy but reporting says that absolutely was not the case: This was a real-deal escape of an AI agent that could have done vastly more damage. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...
You gotta hand it to OpenAI, billing this as a *partnership* between OpenAI & Hugging Face when what actually happened was Hugging Face finding out that OpenAI was using a bunch of bots to exploit security vulnerabilities. Talk about good marketing or whatever you want to call it, by OpenAI.
Somebody* decided my chapter cards were a fun toy. RIP chapter D1. *It was Seamus.
One of the best things that's happened with the vinyl resurgence is the return of shorter albums.
Few things bug me more than AI shills touting the ‘cure cancer’ line. First a stupid chat bot is doing fuck all for cancer research. Second if they actually managed to fall arse backwards into a breakthrough they’d ransom it faster than a moustachioed villain tying a woman to train tracks.
So Microsoft has taken away my access to this older version of word and they’ve deleted the page where you could download the older pre-slop versions. What a bunch of cunts.
